O MEN! Be conscious of your Sustainer, and stand in awe of the Day on which no parent will be of any avail to his child, nor a child will in the least avail his parent! Verily, God’s promise [of resurrection] is true indeed: let not, then, the life of this world delude you, and let not [your own] deceptive thoughts about God delude you!1
1For instance, the self-deluding expectation, while deliberately committing a sin, that God will forgive it (Sa‘îd ibn Jubayr, as quoted by Tabarî, Baghawî, Zamakhsharî). According to Tabarî, the term gharûr denotes “anything that deludes”(mâ gharra) a person in the moral sense, whether it be Satan, or another human being, or an abstract concept, or (as in 57:14) “wishful thinking”.
